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The Temple at Uppsala was long held to be a religious center in the Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th-century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.
Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla], Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. [1] As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre. [2]
The museum is oriented towards the Vendel era and Viking Age history of Gamla Uppsala. Gamla Uppsala was a major religious and cultural centre in Sweden during these eras as well as medieval Sweden between approximately the 5th and the 13th centuries, housing the famous pagan Temple at Uppsala and several large burial mounds. The museum ...
The most famous heathen hof of the Viking Age is that at Gamla Uppsala ("Old Uppsala") in Sweden, which was described by Adam of Bremen around 1070, likely based on an eyewitness description by King Sweyn Estridsen: That folk has a very famous temple called Uppsala . . . .
The only heathen shrine about which there is detailed information is the great temple at Uppsala in modern Sweden, which was described by the German chronicler Adam of Bremen in a time where central Sweden was the last political centre where Norse paganism was practised in public.
The Viking artifacts are estimated to be 1,000 years old. Museum director Ole Madsen said that the relics will be exhibited once researchers take soil samples and x-rays of the artifacts.
Therefore, the first communities in the area were established at a higher altitude in Gamla Uppsala (old Uppsala), about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the current city. [1] In the 3rd and 4th centuries, old Uppsala grew into an important religious and political centre, [2] with both the pagan Temple at Uppsala and the Thing of all Swedes in ...
The 2,600-year-old building had two main rooms and a smaller third room, archaeologists said. The layout was unusual for a temple and had no exact parallel.